Endnote 5 – When Job Sued God

In this translation, I am reading the Ketiv (what is written) l’ “not” for the Qere (what the Masoretic scribes wanted us to read) lw “for him”; and I am reading “his ways” for the Masoretic Text’s “my ways,” which makes no sense and results from an ancient pious correction (tiqqun soferim), intended to protect God’s honor. Compare Job 21:31.